Would You Trade Tari Eason, 1st rd pick & Bench Warmers for Coby White?

Remember that Tari is still going to be coming off the bench for his team, and may still be resting on B2Bs. I just don't think his production is going to be as impressive as you think. I'm also not convinced he'll shoot 36% from three, though I hope so. Also have to consider the cap space landscape. It's not that much different next offseason from what it was this one. Will anybody even be capable of giving him a $30M offer sheet?

 

I get that you're not convinced he'll be healthy or shoot that %, but those are the conditions the post is about. If those things happen no one would be surprised and this whole thing blows up in our face. I think practically no one would be surprised if he played 72 games and shot 1.5% better from 3 than his career. The volume of production won't really matter. Anunoby got paid coming off a mixture of 40, 50 and 60 game seasons. Tari will get paid for what he can produce the following 4 years. If everything goes to **** (misses games, has a b2b restriction, doesn't improve his shooting despite being more motivated than ever to do so, low volume of production) then of course he won't get a big offer.

Yeah I think - aside from BKN - Chicago, Washington, LAL, Miami will all be in play. Those teams are a simple move or waiving of cap holds away from being players and a few of them have stated they're targeting cap space in 2026.

I don't think this is the "check mate" that people are perceiving. All it takes is one team with cap space to be willing to sign him. Then you get your arm twisted into a SnT unless you want to see him walk for nothing.

 

CW doesn't exactly fit the defensive mentality. His on-off numbers are very bad and he has a career negative offensive and defensive impact (OBPM and DBPM both almost always negative).

I'm not sure how CW seeing rather dramatic improvement would be any less of a gamble that almost any of the other options.

 

I'm expecting either Tari is hurt and everyone says I told you so, or Tari has a relative healthy season and blows the doors off what most people expect of him.